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Putting Average People Into Heroic SituationsSat, 29 Mar 2014 22:24:17 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.1MKMMA WEEK 24: THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX? FINALLY SOMEONE EXPLAINS HOW!!https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/03/29/mkmma-week-24-think-outside-the-box-finally-someone-explains-how/
https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/03/29/mkmma-week-24-think-outside-the-box-finally-someone-explains-how/#respondSat, 29 Mar 2014 21:58:00 +0000http://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/?p=203Hey it’s the end of week 24 in the MKMMA experience and 2 more weeks to go! I am excited! This week’s blog is inspired by a culmination of learning and personal growth that has literally turned around my life in so many ways.

I usually don’t put videos in my blog because I am against wasting time on the internet however I have 3 powerful messages this week that support my thinking. Have you ever heard “Think outside the box?”. Totally, yes we all have to the point of distraction. NOBODY ever told me HOW to do it. Well, you are about to see a cool video on the science of how you can do this and apply it to personal and business life. The three videos take up to about 45 minutes so please bookmark this blog and feel free to come back to it to see them all. The second video is about courage and a story of two Hero’s who came together from 2 continents united in Friendship, Spirit and Purpose. I know you may shed a tear when you watch it like I did. The last video is a fun and is about Quantum physics and an experiment called the “double slit experiment.” You must promise me to watch the full video to get the message. This video is about being the “observer”. The only way we can learn, apply and grow is to be a non-judgemental observer and this fun video shows the science behind why that concept can change the world. If you become a non-judgemental observer, the world changes. You shape your own world/reality and that will lead you to your true nature fast. Try observing things around you at work, in nature without making opinions of others. Watch the grass grow, the wind blow, dogs being dogs, kids being kids…when we are in harmony with nature observing things around us, we are connected to the choreographed world which we live in.

It’s during times where we have this connection that the “whispering of our heart can be heard” and that’s when you discover your true “nature or purpose”. And a clue, when your heart speaks, take lots of notes!

When you are connected to the source of all good, you will find your authentic self.

When we find our true nature, our true gifts and our own unique way of sharing them, we bring vitality to everything. Since our presence can change the things we look at, those same things now look different to others and others are affected. We can change the things we touch with our mere presence, effortlessly and with humility. I have mastered the Law of Least Effort. It takes less effort to be successful than it does to fail! That is an incredible statement isn’t it?! People who know me and work with me in all areas of my life are astonished when I talk that way….only when you discover your true self and are in harmony with nature can you use this Law. So many think the opposite…work harder and harder but they fail and fail. Only 5% of people in the world have mastered the Law of Least Effort and I am one of them.

I became a Hero many years ago. Taking my Hero’s journey and stepping over the line to help others. There are people and things I am coming in contact with that do not yet know how significantly their lives are going to change because of my presence. When I realized I have the power to help so many my life changed.

We judge our lives by our own accomplishments but we don’t measure our effect on others. A pebble thrown into a lake can send ripples for miles impacting many.

Any challenge you have is a result of something you want to acquire or make better, it’s in your consciousness. The vast subconscious mind already knows the answer on how to get it…it knows who, or how and where to go and get what you need. Any of our challenges can be solved by this mysterious world within.

In my week 22 blog I talked about sitting in silence and someone I know read it and didn’t understand. It is only in silence that we find ourselves and our true purpose. Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich”; Haanel’s Master Keys and almost every literature on manifesting one’s destiny identifies this game changing activity. I sit and think for 15 minutes a day completely still in silence. I have trained my thoughts to focus on what I want and every day I am manifesting things into my life that I need to achieve my DMP. I can’t explain it to you but it is something you need to experience for yourself.

Did you know that the subconscious mind makes decisions 7 seconds before it is registered in the conscious mind. That is scientific proof that the subby never forgets anything and all we need to solve any challenge or create any future we want is in our subconscious mind. Learning how to sit and think and control thoughts is the foundation to finding one’s bliss.

I used to have this knawing inside most of my life….because I used to determine my worth by other peoples ideas…I became a disconnected soul. I was yearning for connectedness. Have you ever felt that feeling? Lost? Lonely? And you don’t know why. Maybe you turn to a glass of wine or try to find something to fill that emptiness up. The astonishing realization that we can feel empty at some level when we are living our life based on others ideas stopped me in my tracks…and it was even more enormous when I found the place I need to be is already within me. That is why so many people who have money still feel empty inside…because they have never found their true bliss.

I know this may sound a bit out there for some however I thought like that too when I started my journey and now this all makes sense to me. The Hero’s journey usually starts when something not so good happens in our life and we are faced to hear the call to action…for me it was a traumatic childhood, a failing career and a major financial set back…that is when I heard the call to change and I did.

There are only 4 questions in life that matter:

1. What is the source of the spirit?; 2. What is the reason for our existence?; 3. What is worth living for?; 4. What is worth dying for? ;

I discovered the answer to all the questions is: LOVE or SERVICE rendered through LOVE. Finding your gift, giving it away without expectation or reciprocity is how I have changed and live my life. When you find your true gift and take your Hero’s Journey I hope we are somehow connected together so I can help you too.

As I get closer to the VIDEO CLIPS, I want to share a quote from the late STEVE JOBS 1955 – 2011:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma–which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Don’t let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important have the courage to follow your own intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary”.

Thanks for reading my blog this week, please don’t forget to scroll down and leave a comment. Now here are the videos I promised:

]]>https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/03/29/mkmma-week-24-think-outside-the-box-finally-someone-explains-how/feed/0MKMMA WEEK 23: THE LAW OF SUCCESS IS SERVICEhttps://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/03/22/mkmma-week-23-the-law-of-success-is-service/
https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/03/22/mkmma-week-23-the-law-of-success-is-service/#commentsSat, 22 Mar 2014 14:57:51 +0000http://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/?p=198I want you to pretend for a moment that you are a service dog like my pal in this picture. Think about the fact that you would live your life being in service to someone who can’t see and depends on you every moment of the day. Think about the mindset of these dogs from birth till death. They are bred to serve and have no other purpose.

Their internal blueprints are wired to give to others and expect nothing in return. Can you imagine how much love and gratitude this dog feels in it’s heart. Can you imagine living your life where you simply give to others and in return live a life of positive thoughts, incredible love and no negativity…that is a state of Nirvana because most of us live our lives fighting off thousands of negative thoughts and fears every second of the day. I spend time daily with my business partners and this weeks blog is in honour of Ki. The other day he asked me to arrange for his employees to share in an upcoming meeting some of their biggest dreams. I almost stopped in my tracks…could it be? This man with the giant heart appeared to get it. I mean, how many bosses ask their employees for their dreams.

I remember saying to Ki that he had discovered the secret that only 5 percent of people in the world know. If you find out their dreams then be in service to help them manifest their dreams, they will follow you and serve you without question. If employees go to work because they see it as a means to get what they want, versus make money for the company they serve, they will continue on their life’s journey and stay for a long while. In my NWM business we develop a DMP or definiteness of purpose statement for each independent owner. Once we know their purpose and dreams, we then tie the work we do with them to that…and they never quit. We go to work with them in service to their DMP…not just to make money for our own business. It’s a huge paradigm shift!

Hey, I was just thinking of continuing the rest of my blog about SERVICE and how that can also apply to creating wealth in business. I want to first update you on the Franklin Makeover that is continuing for me personally. Each week I am observing a leadership trait within others and within myself. The concept is to “Identify” “Magnify” and “Multiply”. Awareness is the beginning of change. This week I observed the trait “well organized”. I saw myself being well organized at least a dozen times this week which enabled me to handle a massive amount of work. I saw my daughter plan a sleepover with a friend by plotting out the bus route and organizing her things the night before. I saw my dog Shadow eat some fresh chicken we put on her bowl of dry dog food. She organized her eating precisely, picking off each piece of chicken without touching the dry food. Then she ate the dry food after to finishing up the tastes left over from the chicken. By looking for “well organized” examples around me, I found myself becoming more organized myself. It was a consciousness that just developed within me…but the truth is that we all have that trait within us and focusing on finding it in others helps us magnify our own ability.

Let’s get back to the core of my message this week. “The Law Of Success is Service”. You hear about this time and time again that people who are in service to others live a life of fulfilment and happiness. When you are giving to others, you get more in return. You can’t feel pain. My father speaks to inmates in prisons who have struggled with alcohol addiction. My father feels no pain when he is in service to others. The human condition cannot feel 2 things at once…we can either feel happiness, or sadness…be a fearless victor or a fearful victim…be poor or be wealthy…live in abundance or in poverty.

The Master Key Part Twenty -Three speaks beautifully of this natural law. I am going to quote some of it for you and simply ask you to think about the meaning of it in the context of your own life…without self judgement or blame. Deal?

“You will find that money weaves itself into the entire fabric of our very existence; that the law of success is service’ that we get what we give, and for this reason we should consider it a great privilege to be able to give. ”

“We have found that thought is the creative activity behind every constructive enterprise.”

“It is inevitable that the entertainment of positive, constructive and unselfish thoughts should have a far-reaching effect for good. Compensation is the keynote of the universe. Nature is constantly seeking to strike an equilibrium. Where something is sent out something must be received; else there should be a vacuum formed.”

“The money consciousness is an attitude of mind; it is the open door to arteries of commerce. It is the receptive attitude. Desire is the attractive force which sets the current in motion and fear is the great obstacle by which the current is stopped or completely reversed, turned away from us.”

“Fear is just the opposite of money consciousness; it is poverty consciousness, and as the law is unchangeable we get exactly what we give; if we fear we get what we feared. Money weaves itself into the entire fabric of our very existence; it engages the best thought of the best minds.”

“We make money by making friends, and we enlarge our circle of friends by making money for them, by helping them, by being of service to them. The first law of success then is service and this in turn is built on integrity and justice. The man who at least is not fair in his intention is simply ignorant; he has missed the fundamental law of all exchange; he is impossible; he will lose surely and certainly; he may not know it; he may think he is winning, but he is doomed to certain defeat. He cannot cheat the Infinite. The law of compensation will demand of him an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”

My message is very simple…you can make a money magnet of yourself, but to do so you must first consider how you can make money for other people. What benefits one must benefit all. And the law that defines how I live my life and why I am overflowing with wealth in my life is the law of service to others. I am the seeing eye dog in service to my friends and partners…and I believe without question that my rewards in life will be enormous. I haven’t collected all my wealth yet nor have I finished my hero’s journey to be in service to others. There are children all over the world who need a service dog like me, there are adults all over the world who are reaching out to find their own hero’s journey and I have appeared in their lives…I have needs to fulfil my own dreams and the solutions I need are manifesting themselves daily in my life because of this incredible law that I have shared with you today.

Have an awesome week ahead and I’ll be back in Week 24 of the MKMMA Experience to share more.

]]>https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/03/22/mkmma-week-23-the-law-of-success-is-service/feed/8MKMMA WEEK 22A: BE SILENT WITH ME FOR 15 MINUTEShttps://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/03/15/mkmma-week-22a-be-silent-with-me-for-15-minutes/
https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/03/15/mkmma-week-22a-be-silent-with-me-for-15-minutes/#commentsSun, 16 Mar 2014 03:25:05 +0000http://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/?p=195This is week 22A of my 26 week Master Keys Experience and I have been challenged this week like no other challenge in my life before.

We have been asked to be SILENT for 1 week. No digital connections, no talking, no media or TV….can you imagine doing that for a whole week? I want to challenge you to help me in my journey this week…some will, some won’t and I know if you do support me you will receive back my gratitude ten fold. Please read further and do the 15 minute exercise described next in this blog.For 23 weeks I have been sitting and thinking for 15 minutes every evening before bed. Sitting in the same place without talking, without any interruptions and closing my eyes to focus on positive thoughts. Once you master this technique, it is incredible what power you unlock from within. It’s only in this state of thinking and silence that you can truly unlock the thoughts in your subconscious mind that will help you move toward your purpose in life.

When you first sit for 15 minutes, you will notice how your mind wanders. In fact even 10 seconds is hard. What I want you to do is not worry about the wandering mind, or the negative thoughts. Just focus on silence, sitting still without moving and discover.

If everyone does this exercise to support me over the next week then I will feel the power of the support from my universe. I am going to be SILENT for a day and then increase that until I can be SILENT for a WEEK.

READY? Here are your instructions:

Click this link below and set the CLOCK to 15 minutes, then get yourself ready in your quite place with no noise and distractions and hit START….then do not move for 15 minutes. Focus on sitting absolutely still and close your eyes to help you focus. Keep focused on positive thoughts and try not to wander. If you think of negative thoughts, just refocus and don’t worry. It is hard to do this for the first time.

Thank you for supporting my WEEK of SILENCE. Leave me a message on this blog if you did the 15 minute SIT and THINK and how it was for you. I encourage you to do 15 minutes daily and the last hour of the day is a great time. Thank you!

This is Geroy…in Vancouver we called him Superman…he is an elite athlete in the Canadian Football League and you can see him holding the holy grail…the Grey Cup Championship trophy.

I took this picture of Geroy in a Starbucks parking lot after a business meeting with him and he invited me to see the Cup. What does this have to do with :An Astonishing Essay?” If you are brave keep reading…Geroy not only led the British Columbia Lions to a Grey Cup victory, he has since led the Saskatchewan Roughriders to the same championship.

A couple years ago I had the honour of partnering with Geroy in my other business. He and I planned a big launch of his business and invited over 100 people to a hotel room to announce our plans. I never forget that day when Geroy spoke on stage. He told the story of his life in football and how he lost time and time again in his early years and how he was cut from teams and traded. He said to the audience, as his Grey Cup ring shone on his finger and you could hear a pin drop “I learned some lessons early in my career that made me a hero. It used to be always about me. I played the game to get more for me but forgot about my team. Then one day after some great lessons and mentoring by the best leaders in the game I decided to change. ”

“I put the team ahead of me. I helped others and stopped worrying about my contract and my own records. I became a leader and gave more to others. I have a rule I live by and that is to always treat others the way I want to be treated myself”. “My career took off and everything I have accomplished today is because of that change in me”.

That day Geroy’s children were in the audience and he was speaking not only to all of us but to them as well. He has spent his life as a professional athlete moulding others to live by giving more to others before taking for themselves.

BAM! That leads me to my message to you. An Astonishing Essay was written in 1841 by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is a long essay and on first pass, difficult to read. If you are like me and care about your success in life and business, you will make time to read it entirely and perhaps print it out and read it again. Here is the link to the essay: Emerson – The Law of Compensation.

When I read this essay weeks ago as part of the Master Keys Experience course that I am taking with people from 7 continents I didn’t immediately get the message. And like me you might think it is a religious based essay or a lecture on principles of life but it isn’t that.

I would like you to leave a comment on my blog even if anonymous as to what you think this Law of Compensation is about and how it can change your life.

I leave you with the astonishing breakthrough I had and it now permeates through all I do in life. In everything I do, in all I teach, in all my decisions I keep the principle “Give more Get More” in the forefront. When I am tempted to think about my needs first, I think about giving more to others. When I feel I am lacking what I need, instead of going to look for more, I give to others. I have developed the understanding that if you live life Giving more you will Get more. It is this law backed up by faith and consistency that plays out across mankind over and over again. In my life I can find example after example of how when I gave more to others, I manifested more for myself.

I honour Geroy for being heroic and teaching this Law of Compensation through his actions as a ball player. I honour my friends and associates who read the essay with an open mind to change the way they think in life. If you have ever lost it all or been on the brink like I have, it is easy to find blame of others but the reality is that every situation in our lives today has been created by our decisions and actions of the past. When I adopted the Law of Compensation in my life it changed everything.

Thanks for stopping by…Peace!

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https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/03/02/mkmma-week-21-today-i-will-master-my-emotions/#commentsSun, 02 Mar 2014 16:18:34 +0000http://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/?p=183Today is the last day of WEEK 21 in the Master Keys Experience and I had an epiphany this week about EMOTIONS. This week the Franklin makeover was continuing and my two words that I was looking for in others and within myself were COURAGE and IMAGINATION. Haveyou ever heard someone say “never make decisions when you are emotional?” Absolutely we all have. I read the Og Mandino Scroll VI this week in “the Greatest Salesman in the World” and it hit me like a freight train. So obvious so astonishing a thought that all my life I have made decisions without considering emotions.

The little guy in the picture is Tyson. A week or so ago in my living room he came to sing to a group of about 25 people. He is 8 years old and was discovered locally as a talent that could rival Michael Bublet. How does Tyler fit into the story I’m weaving in your mind this week? I promise you this week’s blog will give you something incredible to change your life…if you are prepared to read to the end where there is a special passage that I need you to promise to read. Promise me you will? Okay, please continue.

When we were children most of us were born Golden. We were born with innocence and slowly over time that Golden Buddah statue that we are began inheriting this crust. Layer by layer this cement crust would cover up our innocence and most of that crust comes from the things we hear and see around us. Media, parents, our government and school systems pour thoughts into our subconscious mind which as we know does not sleep.

Tyson stood up in front of a room of 25 that day and he has stood in front of many more. He has won awards, opened up at arenas and some say he may be bigger than life. You can Google Tyson Venegas if you like and find his Youtube videos on the internet. If you are like me and all that saw him that day, you will be blown away. Tyson had no fear that day and at his age it was evident that he was expressing himself with passion and only the emotions of love and caring for others. He wasn’t afraid…he wasn’t paid money to sing to us…his mother was sitting on the floor beside him as he sang with this incredible smile so big I could only smile inside and out myself. Tyson’s emotions were clearly of love and happiness.

It reminded me of when I was a child and my father bought me a guitar. I grew up in a rather difficult situation where my dad forced his will on us and our Golden Buddah’s became fearful at an early age. Guitar is a magical instrument and today I play both acoustic and electric and I quite love the experience. However back then when I was Tyson’s age I was forced to play for family and friends who visited our house and I hated it. Hate is a serious word but I hated it and now that I think back, my emotions were so heavy that I couldn’t express myself like Tyson. So why do I love to play today? And I can stand up in front of people and speak to crowds of thousands as a business executive and professional trainer? It’s because I have mastered my emotions and understood what makes me fearful. When I hated playing to others, it wasn’t because the guitar was not a beautiful thing, it was because in my upbringing my father who didn’t know well enough his impact on others, created an emotion of fear and failure in me. I couldn’t do right no matter what and he was always criticizing every little thing. Soon the subconscious mind began to believe that the body was no good, that it couldn’t succeed at anything. BAM! That emotion plagued me in everything I did. Swimming lessons, playing guitar in front of a room of family or whatever it was I was reacting in a way that was unlike our friend Tyson.

Some Human beings feel that the pathway to success is to criticize others, point out their faults consistently. That is wrong. You can find that Golden Buddah in anyone you know if you shower them with praise when they need it, if you focus on positive thoughts, if you let them create from within what we all know is present in everyone of us…greatness.

I honour Tyson’s mother because she has a gift that many parents don’t realize they have. We have the gift to shape our children’s futures with our emotions. Give more positives and love, get more in return. When I met Tyson and gave him a fist pump, I could tell there was something special about this little boy. He was in total control of his emotions that day and when he was singing you could feel he was living his bliss.

I have spent the last two weeks in my business life around many people. I Chair a not for profit Organization, I work with a financial insurance company as a mentor and leader to others, and I help thousands in my network marketing business. Each day I come across people who are Golden and then others who have so much crust or cement built up on themselves that they can’t function effectively. I have developed my purpose to love all of those people and help those like me find their bliss. We are all Tyson’s inside.

That brings me to the close of my blog where I want to quote from Og Mandino Scroll VI. To all my friends and blog readers, please read this carefully and all I ask is that you consider the meaning of it as a way to help others.

“Today I will be master of my emotions”. And how will I master my emotions so that every day is a happy day, and a productive one? I will learn this secret of the ages: Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts. Each day, when I awaken, I will follow this plan of battle before I am captured by the forces of sadness, self-pity and failure—

If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labour. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will remember past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.

I will know that only those with inferior ability can always be at their best, and I am not inferior. There are days when I must constantly struggle against forces which would tear me down. Those such as despair and sadness are simple to recognize but there are others which approach with a smile and the hand of friendship and they can also destroy me. Against them, too, I must never relinquish control—-

If I become overconfident I will recall my failures. If I overindulge I will think of past hungers. If I feel complacency I will remember my competition. If I enjoy moments of greatness I will remember moments of shame. If I feel all-powerful I will try to stop the wind. If I attain great wealth I will remember one unfed mouth. If I become overly proud I will remember a moment of weakness. If I feel my skill is unmatched I will look at the stars.

Today I will be master of my emotions.

And with this new knowledge I will also understand and recognize the moods of him on whom I call. I will make allowances for his anger and irritation of today for he knows not the secret of controlling his mind. I can withstand his arrows and insults for now I know that tomorrow he will change and be a joy to approach.

Today I will master my emotions.

Thanks for stopping by this week my friends…I look forward to WEEK 22 of the Master Keys Experience. Peace.

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https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/03/02/mkmma-week-21-today-i-will-master-my-emotions/feed/11MKMMA WEEK 20: GLASS HOUSES AND SELF CONTROL OR SHATTERED DREAMShttps://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/02/15/mkmma-week-20-glass-houses-and-self-control-or-shattered-dreams/
https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/02/15/mkmma-week-20-glass-houses-and-self-control-or-shattered-dreams/#commentsSat, 15 Feb 2014 15:31:01 +0000http://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/?p=178Have you heard the term “Glass Houses” before? I was sitting in a hotel lobby in Toronto Canada this week doing my daily SIT and THINK for 15 minutes and this image just stood out for me.

The glass room picture is a metaphor for the World I believe we live in. If you were there with me you would know that outside the glass box millions of beautiful snow flakes are falling like fluffy little pillows from the sky. These resembled to me the millions of positive thoughts a day that are in our mind. They are all white or pure and positive and no black snow flakes exist. This is a fantasy World for sure. Would you like to know how to create this World and manifest your success and dreams versus shatter them? It is true that we live in a World that is like a glass house. We have millions of thoughts in our mind every day and many of those are negative. We shed opinions about others and think about negative things. That’s simply how the subconscious works because of the data that has been stacked up inside since we were children. From the Science we have learned in the Master Keys Experience over the last 20 weeks, we know that you cannot manifest your dreams, your wealth, your good health or anything else that you desire if you focus on negative thoughts. What you think about will manifest itself. I have experienced this over and over again. We remember that the power of thought and desire mixed with emotion unlocks the brain’s creative thinking power. Those white snow flakes I mention are millions of positive thoughts and ideas that are searching to manifest our destiny however those black snow flakes that I mentioned are present in our subconscious minds as a powerful force waiting to shatter our dreams.

As I sat in this hotel lobby I noticed the glass house and the white snow flakes all around outside. I was preparing for an important meeting and was nervous about the outcome. Instead of giving in to the black snow flakes in my subconscious, those flakes of fear and failure that plague most of us with worry, I was visualizing the meeting being incredibly successful and that the result would take us one step further toward our dreams. It was only with that self control and thinking that the fears of failure disappeared. The confidence level went through the roof and I believed that I would be invincible this day.

Let’s just say that those black snow flakes or negative thoughts as I call it, are rocks that will shatter the glass house we live in. Thinking negatively, talking negatively or behaving in a way that is critical of others will NEVER manifest success. Most men and women fail because of rocks that shatter their dreams. The only way to create success is to develop the mental muscle to control thoughts and connect that power to anything you desire. Simply put you will find what you are looking for.

If a fat person wants to lose more weight they will gain weight. Thinking about being fat will bring more of that into ones life. Thinking about being fit will create massive health improvements. A sales person thinking on the way to a sales call about past failures or obstacles, playing that old story over and over again in their minds will create a negative outcome. I have been a top sales person in almost every company I have worked for and I am just an ordinary guy. The difference is that I work at a higher level of consciousness than most people because I get it. I exercise self control and use power of thought to manifest dreams and success. Sometimes people look at me and poke fun thinking my methods and way of being are weak however the opposite is true. The power I emit into the Universe attracts things and people toward me and it is simply unexplainable. Man with limited intelligence can be far more successful than one with big education but no ability to control how he thinks and behaves.

I was proud of my business partner this week because I have seen his journey toward becoming a better person evolve. This week the Franklin Make over continued and my leadership attribute was SELF CONTROL. BAM! I didn’t share this with my partner on my trip but the following describes what I was going through that day I spent on the road with him and my old self of NO CONTROL would have crashed and burned.

Just a few days prior to my business trip my Uncle Bob, my mom’s brother who lives in Australia had fallen and was on life support. That crushed my mom when she found out. Mom lives here in Canada and is in her mid 70’s so she yearned to travel but couldn’t get there. After a weekend of worry and another family set back with my mom I was facing a monumental week in my business but incredible worry in my mind about my family.

My subconscious was full of thoughts about my mom and my Uncle yet I had to maintain SELF CONTROL. I knew that I had to block out all Black snow flakes this week and see the White ones. My wife and I are getting ready for a big Founder tour next week in our Networking Company. As the top leaders in Canada we are hosting the Founders to Vancouver. Thursday night is a big hotel meeting to hear their Vision and Friday/Saturday are private meetings in homes of our partners all over the place. Add onto that my role as MC and a speaker at the main event and it’s exciting. On top of that I work with another company helping them advance in their goals and there are multiple issues we are working through to resolution. And on top of that the business trip to Toronto to move a significant prospect forward to a next step was looming. How can one maintain control and persevere with such a week of pressure on their shoulders?

By using the Natural Laws of the Mind, the power of thought and thought control that I have learned in the Master Keys experience I can honestly say that I returned home Valentines Evening a Fearless Victor versus a Fearful Victim. Mom has made good progress with her situation, my daughter and wife welcomed me home with love on Valentines evening, the business trip was successful and I managed to keep the black snow flakes from shattering the glass house this week.

It is absolutely true that you have the power to change any outcome by changing how you think and behave. What is more evident to me is that everywhere I go I can see the black and white snowflakes in others. And when I do, I give love and gratitude to those for making me a stronger man. There is a person I think about these days and let’s just refer to him as Mr. R. He sometimes looks down on people and judges them if they are reserved and quiet and not powerful and dominant like he can be, he doesn’t show empathy or love for those around him when they need it, and he seems lost in his own life journey. I am sending the positive energy I created this week to Mr. R and know that by exercising Emerson’s Natural Law of Compensation “Give more Get more” I can help him manifest his dreams too. There is nothing that will stop me. “I will be what I WILL to be”. I am excited about week 20 ahead. Until next blog…thanks for stopping by and please put a comment in the REPLY box on this page.

]]>https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/02/15/mkmma-week-20-glass-houses-and-self-control-or-shattered-dreams/feed/13MKMMA WEEK 18: I AM What’s Wrong With The World Todayhttps://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/02/09/mkmma-week-18-i-am-whats-wrong-with-the-world-today/
https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/02/09/mkmma-week-18-i-am-whats-wrong-with-the-world-today/#commentsSun, 09 Feb 2014 20:50:09 +0000http://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/?p=170When G. Chesterton wrote an essay to respond to the question “What’s wrong with the world” he replied: Dear Sirs, I AM. When Tom Shadyac heard of his reply he wrote him and said “Bingo”.

This week’s blog is not for the faint of heart and is on the boundaries of controversial. After watching this documentary called “I AM” I asked myself the same question and replied in harmony with Chesterton…“I AM what’s wrong with the world today”.

To my friends who want to answer that question I recommend you keep reading my blog to the end…some of you will also need to answer the question “What am I pretending not to know?”. This week in the Master Keys Mastermind Alliance Experience course we were given the choice to watch 2 movies. One was “Finding Joe” and the other “I AM”. Both are equally brilliant. I have seen Finding Joe so I highly recommend you and your children watch it and after watching “I AM” there is no question you will want to watch it. I found it on Netflix.

Thomas Peter “Tom” Shadyac (cool name Tom so I like him already…lol) is an American comedian, director, screenwriter, producer, author and sometimes actor. I was shocked at his impressive resume. He was behind blockbuster hits such as Ace Ventura Pet Detective, the Nutty Professor, Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty, I AM. Or you may relate more to the actors that he made famous in these movies which included Jim Carey, Robin WIlliams, Steve Carrell. I am not enamoured by his Directing accomplishments, I am blown away by his story.

Tom was at the top of his career and had accumulated an empire of wealth when he faced a major life event that caused him to take a sharp turn into unknown territory, rethinking his priorities in his life. As I write his story, I draw comparisons to my own life. For those who know me, I am a Hero and took my Hero’s journey starting in 2007 to discover myself. My life was full of incredible success and wealth but incredible emptiness and sadness followed my heart everywhere I went. Like Tom, when I finally had a life changing moment I decided to become Heroic and change myself.

Tom’s story is of Mental Illness as he puts it. He suffered a bike fall and experienced post concussion syndrome, a broken arm and symptoms of pain, ringing in his head and more that he characterised as torture. For those who know of PCS you will realize that the symptoms can go on for a lifetime. Tom suggested that after 4 months of this he was ready to face death. When at that pivotal moment, he needed to become clear on his purpose and wanted to tell people what he knew, that the world he was living was a lie. The game that he had built his life around was supposed to heal the world, but he discovered it was most likely destroying it.

Tom’s PCS symptoms miraculously went away and that inspired him to take a crew of 4 cameramen and film his journey. He interviewed spiritual leaders and philosophers worldwide in the movie I AM and asked 2 questions:

Q1: What is wrong with our world? Q2: What can we do about it?

The epiphanies in this movie for me are enormous and some a reminder of what I discovered. However as you read this please know that 95% of people on the planet do not know what Tom and I know. Do you? Science has proven that we are made out of materialization or “Stuff”. If we can’t touch it, we can’t feel it. We honour and teach that we need to be significant at someone else’s expense. The physical nature of human beings, the way our homes are situated in our neighbourhoods and society in general are separated…we have embraced a culture of COMPETITION…you know, separate from the pack, be #1…and we have taught our children the same. We are wired to compete and gratify our own desires. We are primarily “singular individuals” and secondarily “social beings”. This in itself creates a world of separation.

Sound weird? When we eat a sandwich, we can throw the wrapper on the ground as litter. We do not see ourselves connected to the planet as one, we are separate, and that causes behaviours that destroy the world instead of create harmony and growth.

We are taught that Wealth and Happiness are synonymous….you want happiness, you have to own stuff! The message in the media after 911 was to “Go out and shop”. My father was a drunk and very abusive to me physically and mentally…I don’t tell that story any more for personal gain…I tell it only to connect you to a meaning in my life and I love my dad for giving me through his actions the gifts that make me a Hero to others. Dad after hurting me would sober up and bring to my bedside a gift of some kind. He would do that as his remorse and that was how I learned to give love. I lived my life giving stuff to others and not knowing the true way of loving others. Dad was a military commander and the only thing I knew was that I had to be number one at everything I did and that was the way to happiness. Are you seeing the pattern here? It was only later in life and now again after watching “I AM” that I understood why “I AM what’s wrong with the world today”.

When Tom was at the top of his career he acquired million dollar mansions and jets in Hollywood and lived like a King. As he described in the movie, one day he stood in the foyer of his mansion and realized that the more stuff he had, the less happy he was. The culture he grew up in taught him that the house he had was a measure of the good life.

Are you ready for the TRUTH AND LIE about life? Imagine being stranded in a forest with snow all around you, no food and little clothing. You are very unhappy. You come across a log cabin with the light glowing in the window, the smoke billowing from the chimney. In that cabin you find someone who takes you in with love, gives you a blanket, some clean warm clothes and puts soup in your hands while you sit by the fire. BAM! You are now incredibly happy! That’s the truth folks, we can be incredibly happy with very little stuff.

Now the LIE. The more stuff you have the more happier you will become. Folks it is a psychological problem not the reality…having 1 Billion in wealth then doubling it to 2 Billion does not double your happiness. This is why people driven to accumulate and accumulate without asking the question “will this make me happy?” and “why aren’t rich people happy?” will always crash and burn somehow in their lives. This story plays out over and over again. In my life I experienced a total collapse financially because of a financial fraud in 2006…the sad truth and one that is hard for me to acknowledge is that we had it all and kept looking for more and more to create happiness…that led us into a scam that took everything we had and when we look at our life now, living with limited means but free of stress and debt, we are happier than we have ever been. OMG! Add to this the fact that because of the peptides that are created in the brain, people who lose it all will create the same outcome again and again in their lives unless they understand what I have learned in the Master Keys Experience. For our situation to change, we must change my friends.

We have privileged in North America the idea that wealth was the pathway to happiness but the sad reality is that we are always trying to avoid realities in our lives by padding ourselves with stuff. I was unhappy, buy more stuff. I hurt others with my actions, give them more stuff. We start wars, wars between Countries, wars between races, wars between rich and poor over this way of thinking. Somewhere in history we created the rule that the economy is the most important thing in the world. My favourite movie “Wall Street” is one where Gordon Gecko declared “Greed is good”. I remember seeing his speech and cheering him on. That was before I decided to change and realized I need a new reality in my life.

Right about now are you gripped by this blog, or are you wishing it would end because you need to go play with your stuff…lol. Seriously, if you want to hear the rest of the story, see WEEK 19 Blog titled “PART 2: I AM What’s Wrong With The World Today. Ciao for now.

]]>https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/02/09/mkmma-week-18-i-am-whats-wrong-with-the-world-today/feed/9MKMMA WEEK 19: PART 2 of I AM What’s Wrong With The World Todayhttps://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/02/09/mkmma-week-19-part-2-of-i-am-whats-wrong-with-the-world-today/
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My Fiji Island Where I SIT and Think Daily

Welcome to PART 2…if you haven’t read PART 1 which is my WEEK 18 blog…stop now and go read that blog or the story as it continues here will not make sense…I appreciate you taking time to do that if you really want to know why “I AM What’s Wrong With The World Today”. If you have read it then please read on…That picture above is an island in Fiji where my roots began when my mom and dad met and were married. People in Fiji live in paradise with little stuff and incredible happiness. A CLUE!!

Carrying on from PART 1, if we keep thinking the way we have been taught by our culture of greed and accumulating stuff to be happy, the planet will continue to endure shock after shock until we wake up and realize we got it all wrong. As Tom Shaydac speaks to in his documentary “I AM”, what about Love, Compassion, Kindness, Empathy versus Greed and Power? Are we just greedy species wreaking havoc on the planet? Hey, I am not some tree hugging lecturer folks, I am a man who has made a major breakthrough in my thinking.

In the documentary “I AM” we explore further what human kind’s basic nature is. Is the essential nature of humans to “Cooperate” or “Dominate”…”to have Kingdom or have Democracy”. In aboriginal or indigenous societies the highest social value is cooperation and competition is a very low value. And competition beyond certain limits is considered MENTAL ILLNESS. Wow! Think on this for a bit. Our Culture has Competition as a high value and cooperation as a low value. We’ll steal and be greedy and take from others to be number one. We’ll take more than we need to live a happy life and others will suffer. I know this is controversial folks but this is where I ask you to look the guy and gal in the mirror and look at yourself. Our human nature is to be competitive! That’s not totally a bad thing until it creates disharmony, unhappiness and poverty in the word.

We discover in the documentary that the basis of nature is cooperation and democracy. It’s in our DNA…science has studied all species from insects to primates and they have co-existed in cooperation and democracy.

Let’s go deeper into our nervous systems and understand that there are major parts of our brain, our nervous system and even chemicals in our blood that are there to help us connect to others. The Vegas nerve in the body is one of the largest nerve systems. It has many functions that you can research on your own but there is one I was astonished by. Have you ever watched someone being rescued from a difficult situation like a car wreck, or watched a movie where a scene has your chest expanding, you tear up, there is a sense or unexplainable elation. When I watch the scene in “It’s a Wonderful Life” my favour Christmas classic, I experience this feeling every time…that scene is where George Bailey’s friends come to his rescue with money and love to help him recover from a bad situation…his life long journey of giving to others is repaid when he needed it the most. This scene is just one example of many that cause this feeling of elevation. This response is scientifically known as “Elevation” and we crave it. When we get it, we feel no pain and we want it again and again. Here’s the cool thing. We are hard wired for a compassionate response to other’s troubles, these endorphins that are created give us this sense of elevation. It is in our DNA!

I know some of you will be sceptical now that I am brining science into this but please, be open minded to learn what you may not know. We are born to be connected, to look after each other, to do good. When we serve others we create a feeling of contentment, ecstasy and happiness that cannot be denied. My father speaks to men in prisons, he helps others who have lived a life of addiction and this service is helping him live a life pain free. So many people in the world live a life of giving to others once they discover their purpose.

We live in a utopian world as Tom Shaydac puts it, where love and passion enter every aspect of our lives from within business to our personal lives. Is it okay to believe one way on Sunday and then another way on Monday?…that’s just the human nature. Is it possible we have misunderstood human nature?

Love, Caring, Gratitude, Compassion does have a profound effect on our body, it determines how our hearts beat and our state. If you have fear, anger then your heart beats differently and the brain’s ability to think is inhibited. When I learned this it totally explained why I sometimes do what I do. Have you ever said something stupid to someone that made you angry and later you ask yourself how you could have ever said such a thing? It’s because the fear and anger emotions inhibited for a moment the brains ability to think…”OMG, it made us stupid for a split second”! My message is that positive emotions lead to harmony, clearer thinking, better emotions and we function better in a state of empathy compassion and love. I have a dear friend and colleague that sometimes says “you are too nice, you have to grow a pair”. If he reads this blog he will probably understand why I do what I do and can get more harmony out of people as a result.

The documentary “I AM” further explores the science done on the heart over the last decade and it is clear that the heart is the first access point to the spirit. The heart actually sends more information to the brain and not vice versa as we once believed. This science further explains how we emit a field of energy from the heart to other systems all around us. There is NO SEPARATION from humans and nature..everything is connected and has an impact on every system of nature on the planet. We can have an impact on changing the world!

I believe as Tom says in the documentary “I AM” that we must celebrate being here. That it is possible that we have looked at the world incorrectly. We are all connected versus separate beings. How do we change the world…it starts with consciousness and our definition of ourselves. Everyday small acts of kindness do add up to major changes worldwide. Ghandi and his amazing story is an example of each one person doing a small act of kindness moving a Nation to harmony.

When we accumulate wealth or private properties that are beyond one’s needs, this is considered in many indigenous peoples and ancient tribes as a mental illness. I know this is controversial but we are participating in a Vision that is destroying the world. We practise hoarding wealth and competing with one another while the old, weak, sick go hungry. I experienced this in a group of men that I consult with…greed and disharmony can destroy versus create. Nothing in nature takes more than it needs… a lion kills to feed itself and it’s cubs and leaves the rest for others…this is a natural law.

I can honestly tell people I work what that I am with them to create their success, their wealth and happiness. I have told those same people that I just need enough to look after my needs and fulfil my legacy of giving to others. In my past life it was about greed and more and more…now I know why I did what I did.

Tom Shaydac and I have both discovered that we one day woke up and instead of being part of healing the world, we were taking more than we needed and became a part of the cancer in the world. My favourite Indian Icon Ghandi believed that love is a force that has power, Martin Luther King the same…the Dalai Lama said that critical thinking must be followed by action.

Change comes about as a result of millions of tiny acts that alone seem insignificant. If we knew how those acts are connected, we wouldn’t hesitate to commit those acts consistently. All these little acts together make up the “Power of 1” which can change the world. Just do something each day whether it is in yourself, your family life, your business…everyone has the Power of 1 and when we galvanize others, it is possible to change. I love to share this thing my friend Mark does. Whenever he goes shopping to Costco his wife always laughs because he is running all over the parking lot collecting shopping carts and taking them back to the holding place where others go to retrieve them. This is just one little act of kindness that Mark does every day. Developing the muscle of HABIT to be kind to others!

In my life change has come slowly in small steps…once I figured out my purpose in 2007 I started to change. I changed how I think learning one skill at a time; I started doing small random acts of kindness for others, I rid myself of debt and material mental illness; I started sharing my story with this blog; I dedicate my life to helping 1 person at a time because I know that all these little actions will eventually change the world. If someone is angry or upsets me, I thank them for making me stronger. If I have enemies, I appreciate them. I know that I cannot create success when my subconscious mind is full of negativity. When it rains, the clouds are weeping to water the Earth and we celebrate that. When someone dies we Celebrate their life and all they gave to us.

As I wrap up I share one more question that Tom posed in the movie. What is right with the world?” The answer is “The science of connection and unity, the universal nature of compassion and empathy, the mystery and magic of the human heart”. A new world is being born as we change ourselves, we must see ourselves as being connected as 1 to each other, to our enemies, to nature.

Thank you for reading my 2 blogs and now you know why I said “I AM What’s Wrong With the World Today” …the breakthrough is that I have made changes to be “What is right with the world”. Are you living a life of cancer and mental illness or as a healer? Will you answer the question “What is wrong with the world?” as G Chesterton and I have….”I AM”. I believe that if you do, only then can you become what is right with the world and take the journey with me to change other’s lives. Peace be the Journey. See ya again soon.

]]>https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/02/09/mkmma-week-19-part-2-of-i-am-whats-wrong-with-the-world-today/feed/4MKMMA WEEK 17A: Celebrating LIFE with ENTHUSIASMhttps://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/02/02/mkmma-week-17a-celebrating-life-with-enthusiasm/
https://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/2014/02/02/mkmma-week-17a-celebrating-life-with-enthusiasm/#commentsSun, 02 Feb 2014 17:28:23 +0000http://mkmmatommygun.tomdutta.com/?p=160Week 17A of the Master Key Experience is truly an experience I will not forget. Have you ever met someone in your life that you never knew before, and you realized that they came into your life as a gift from God?

Well, seriously, I am not going to write a blog on Religion or tell you that you should believe in a higher power but I will say that everything the Master Keys taught me about manifesting what you need to attain your Definiteness of Purpose is absolutely coming true for me. Read on to learn about John.This week we have been asked to read the Obituaries daily and in addition, I am continuing my Franklin Makeover by looking for signs of ENTHUSIASM! How does John fit into this? Well, I am travelling this week and actually sitting in his home writing this blog. My wife the Astonishing Anna and I are here in San Diego California on pleasure and business. We are certified trainers in a Network Marketing Company and this weekend we came to teach some skills to our team. Wrapped around that is a few days of pleasure hanging out with our friends John and Beth…we call them the Pineapple Express because their dreams include living in Mauii where people live and celebrate life in a beautiful way every day.

Winding back the clock…I didn’t know John and Beth until I met them through our business partner John “Ace” Aasen. Yes, another John! Ace lives in Vancouver Canada where we are from and John or “Pineapple” lives in San Diego County. When John came into my life something incredible happened. I discovered he was a world class Chef and one of my dreams that I have had since I was a kid, was to learn to cook and be able to do the things a world class Chef could do. I grew up in a troubled home and life wasn’t always a bowl of cherries. I used to escape and live vicariously with ENTHUSIASM, doing things that lit me up. I remember as a kid watching almost every cooking show, reading cook books, watching my mom and my aunts at the stove cooking in the kitchen for sometimes hours in a day.

As I grew older in my life, I found that when life was busy or times were a bit stressful, I would go into the kitchen and cook. Today I love to cook for my wife and daughter and I think I am pretty good at it. I find that when I am in the kitchen, every worry disappears. The Master Key taught us to search for the time in our lives when we used to do things that totally brought joy to us. Those things that made us feel in a state of Nirvana. Every time I think about it I always go back to those days in the kitchen. WOW!

Here is a picture of my DMP in visual form. We created this in the early weeks of the MKMMA experience. If you look closely on the right side you will see a frying pan, a picture of a Villa in Italy and a few other images. Those are the images of my journey to become a world class Chef. Hey, I don’t want to work in a restaurant! No, I want to learn to cook like my friend John and share that with the people I love in my life. I want to stand in the kitchen like John and bubble over with ENTHUSIASM. In fact on my dream board is another visual of my first restaurant which I plan to open in Vancouver. Hey, I figure I can bring in a world class Chef to run it and have a gathering place for my friends and family where lasting memories can be created for decades. An incredible legacy! And when I go there I know that my golden Buddah will shine as I am surrounded with my bliss.

So check out John’s masterpiece in the picture…the first night here at his home he prepared this incredible meal and I am telling you, it was incredible. I’ve eaten around the world at top restaurants while working in Corporate America for over 30 years, and I would put John’s masterpiece right up there with the best.

Here’s the kicker…as we sat in the gourmet kitchen that John has built into his beautiful home in San Diego, I watched this man scurry around the kitchen, putting a bit of this and a bit of that into his dishes. He worked with ENTHUSIASM and the precision of a surgeon. He talked about stories of when he was in cooking school and described things to me that had me totally excited in my subconscious mind. I know this because I couldn’t leave the kitchen and I wanted to hear more and more of his stories. John has this incredible way about him…he has a wonderful sense of humor and is a great story teller. I would call him an iconic man who has humility because when you meet him he comes across as just an average guy.

However, John’s life has many stories of people he has met and experiences he has had that in my mind put him at the top of the pack in terms of celebrity status!! LOL. He’d kill me for saying he’s a celebrity but to me he is that kind of guy. The thing about John is that he gives and gives to others, he does things with ENTHUSIASM and when someone says can’t, he pushes through and makes things happen.

John is an example of CELEBRATION OF LIFE. And here is the irony in my story…he came into my life and brought to me a part of my DMP. I can learn from him, come to his home and see his gourmet kitchen so I can create my own, and most importantly, I can see someone that I want to be like because of his KINDNESS to others. Without the learning from the MKMMA course, I would not have been able to manifest John in my life and connect the dots to my own dreams.

Finally I wanted to explain the obituaries. See, we had to read one a day this week and I had never done that before. Each time I read one it started to create this awareness of how precious life is for me. I sometimes take my life for granted and like many, complain about the things I don’t like. Time and time again I read about someone leaving us way too early and leaving behind those they loved. I learned from the words in each obituary that people were celebrating and not grieving a loss. So here I am looking for examples of ENTHUSIASM and at the same time reading the obituaries each day. That’s when it hit me…BAM! The contrast in feelings left me appreciating more the Celebration of Life and taking less for granted the things I have around me in my life. My friend John “the Pineapple” I saw in a totally different light because I was seeing the things he did to celebrate life with so much enthusiasm that when I was around him I just felt amazing. Last picture below is the future story I may tell you about Enthusiasm for life….meet Nick…a four legged Canine who absolutely Celebrates life every day in his incredible bond with John.

CELEBRATE LIFE WITH ENTHUSIASM EVERYONE! Until next week…good night John boy…I love you dude!

This MKMMA Week 17 was the hardest week I have experienced in a long time. This picture is me, feeling like I am falling off the cliff. Have you ever felt like you were falling off the cliff? Without the MKMMA tools, I think I would have disappeared into the abyss!This week I was observing the leadership trait of Persistence as part of my Franklin Makeover. Each day I would observe Persistence in others and then apply the same myself. It was astonishing to see things so differently, and as I saw Persistence in others, it manifested itself from within me more and more every day.

At the end of this blog I will share some advanced learnings from the Master Keys Part 17 regarding concentration for this was a major part of my survival this week. For now, let’s talk about Persistence. Only 5 percent of people know what I have learned, Persistence is not a characteristic…you can’t hype or use the mantra of “pressing on”, or “just hang in there” to move forward in anything in your life. NO! Persistence is actually 4 tiny habits which if mastered, will create massive success toward any goal in your life.

DMP + PMA + WPOA + MMA = SUCCESS. These first 4 acronyms are the Habits of Persistence. First, have a Definiteness of Purpose (Know why you are here and what your purpose in life is), learn to maintain a Positive Mental Attitude and block out all negative thought, have a Written Plan of Action expressed in continuous action toward your goals, and be part of a Mastermind Alliance which is two or more people working in perfect harmony toward each other’s DMPs.

I know this sounds like science but it is exactly that! This week I had a major situation arise at work, a major critical event in my home based business that put me on a collision course for quick failure, and a crisis of massive proportions with having little time and energy to deal with it all in a few days. The last 17 weeks of the Master Keys Experience hit me big time this week and it was the first time in my life that I realized I have changed personally. I have learned so much that a week that would normally crush me and set me back, actually made me stand up and climb faster to the top of the mountain. When I reached the top, I proudly yelled from the cliff with jubilation that I now know I have it within me to conquer almost anything that comes in front of me. This has never been my experience from my past life…the transformation has finally occurred.

I am a Fearless Victor not a Fearful Victim!!!!!

Here is a picture of a workshop that I taught with my wife Anna and other partners last Saturday and it was a culmination of our victories. What would have been a major disaster turned out to be a major success. When the world was closing in and I couldn’t find the time or energy to press on, I focused on those 4 tiny habits and the outcome of success just came from no where. If you have ever felt helpless and wondered how you were going to resolve a crisis, that is how I felt this week and by simply focusing on my Vision for my future, staying the course with my plan of action, using the 7 laws of the mind and other tools from MKMMA to keep the negative thoughts out of my head, and relying on a Mastermind partner to help me keep moving forward. What you see below is me and others in a room, and I am standing there as a Fearless Victor. The feedback after this day to my wife and I and partners who shared the stage with us was incredible!

What was even more spellbinding was that we were on stage teaching those 4 tiny habits and what we know…and the audience had no idea we were just days before in a state of confusion.

In my younger years I always felt that I was alone when things became difficult and I never knew what to do to dig out. Nobody taught me how to handle those situations and yet I just found a way. I have always run away from conflict or difficult situations and used the Fearless Victim as an excuse to anyone who would listen. Do you know people like that?

I am so excited about my Makeover…the new me has emerged!

Let me share now with you a short example on Persistence, from an external source. You have heard about my experience this week however you haven’t heard about Sara until now. Sara in October of 2013 weight 307 lbs. Her children struggled with obesity, Diabetes and as a mother you can imagine how that may have impacted Sara. Sara delivers packages in my neighbourhood and through my business partner, joined our Networking Company late last year. She was attracted to our health system that has breakthrough science designed to help people like her. With the usual fears and scepticism, she started our program. I saw Sara yesterday and she had lost 91 lbs…she looked remarkable, her attitude and beautiful smile lit up the room as she talked to others. I can only tell you that this lady is a picture of Persistence. She spoke at our training workshop and the gift she gave to so many was breathtaking to hear. She demonstrated incredible courage and Persistence and when she told her story, I identified the 4 tiny habits that I was talking about earlier as she talked. The picture below is Sara before starting her transformation with her young daughter. I hope I can share her AFTER picture on another blog.Now let me move to ending my blog with some teachings from the Master Keys Part Seventeen.

Master Keys teaches us that Desire is largely subconscious, and conscious desire rarely realizes the object when the latter is out of immediate reach. Subconscious desire arouses the latent faculties of the mind, and difficult problems seem to solve themselves.

All mental discovery and attainment are the result of desire plus concentration; desire added to concentration will wrench any secret from nature. If you concentrate on some matter of importance, the intuitive power will be set in operation, and help will come in the nature of information which will lead to success.

When you find time daily to sit in silence and think, using the laws of the mind to control your negative thoughts like I have learned to do, the thoughts that you concentrate on as an already existing fact; this is the germ cell, the life principle which goes forth and sets in motion those causes which guide, direct and bring about the necessary relation, which eventually manifest in form.

These teachings may seem a bit complex however if you learn the MKMMA as I have, you will know that you can manifest the solution to any of life’s problems and when you know that you have that power within, you will never look at anything again as a challenge that can’t be overcome. I made that breakthrough this week, and my friend Sara did too!